High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Douglas Garven Alexander (born 26 October 1967) is a British Labour Party politician, who is currently the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the shadow cabinet of Ed Miliband. He has held cabinet posts under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, including Secretary of State for Scotland (2006-07) and Secretary of State for International Development (2007-10). He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Paisley Renfrewshire South constituency, having first been elected to parliament in 1997.